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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Vidgmchtr on May 11, 2008, 06:58:05 PM
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While you were in school getting an edumacation, what were your parents doing to give them money?
I'll start with my mother. She took three years of college, and has, most of the time, taken clerical positions for various offices, as well as be a pre-school teacher and a barber, though she is currently unemployed, but my father has plans to change that.
My father, an artist at heart, has been doing advertising for a good while, and has had art director and creative director positions at Ogilvy & Mather, Publishers' Clearing House, and a local mattress dealer, Sleepy's. He has since quit Sleepy's a couple of years back and started his own agency, AdCount. He's got his own office and jointly runs it under the name of AdCount Direct, LLC with a woman in Marketing (her half of the agency is called Direct Drive).
He wants the company to expand into entertainment, though. He's been pitching a dark comedy TV show about an ad agency, and has got a lot of positive reactions from various people, many of them important enough to get the show on the air. He'd like it to appear on one of the movie channels so he'd have more creative freedom with it. My mother's going to have a prominent role in the show, as well.
This is the opening theme of the show. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM0GQZsCmHU)
(If you go on to YouTube and search "AdCount" and you'll see a couple of other videos of this show. The second result should be the opening theme.)
So what do your parents do?
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My mom and dad both went to the University of Iowa. They also both current work at ACT (a college planning center). Mom works as a test editor and dad works as an accountant.
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How am I supposed to answer this when my (real) dad was a bum and lived off of SSI and child support?
Okay. I guess before he became that way, he worked in a furniture factory.
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Step and surrogate parents are fine, too.
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My dad's a clinical psychologist, and my mom's a substitute elementary-school teacher (she was a full time kindergarten teacher long ago). Speaking of teaching, my dad taught neuropsychology at Lower Columbia College for a brief time. I'm not sure, but he might have stopped from frustratration with his students. A more reasonable problem was poor wages. There's a picture of me in third grade holding a human brain over an enormous petri-dish type thing when I visited his class.
They both went to Washington State University, which is where they met. Whether or not I'll bother to try dating in college is up in the air.
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My dad is a college teacher (agriculture, technology, and ag-tech) and my mom was a kindergarten teacher (nowadays, first grade).
I think this made me smart.
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My father is Super Mario. I have said all! XD
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Eh, my dad mows lawns, and my mom works as a receptionist at a religious place.
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My mom is a graphic designer who who seems to switch companies every couple of years. Currently she works for the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, in the advertising department. Currently my dad works for a restaurant in some shopping center near here. (Yes, guitar players of the Fungi Forums, I know I told you he works for Gibson. He just recently left due to poor working conditions in his department and not being able to transfer out of it.)
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My parents are co-owners of a chain of janitorial franchises, though my mom does most of the paperwork. I'm also one of their employees.
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My dad is a mehanical engineer, my mom is an accountant. Dad's job has been getting more and more stupid by the day and he really doesn't deserve to have to put up with what he does every day. The firm mom works for is losing its customers due to the economy being a pile of suck so she may be out a job soon.
YAY EVERYTHING
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My dad's the chairman and CEO for a company.
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The company has 14 employees.
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Who're you talking about, Chup?
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Sorry, I meant comapny.
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Did someone say coma pony (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=23655317)?
My dad's a truck driver, and my mom's a teacher, though she doesn't always get paid for it. She homeschooled me from kindergarten through 7th grade (well, sort of; she bought the kindergarten homeschool kit and found that I already knew all of it, so she skipped ahead to first grade, and I've been a year and a half ahead ever since), then she taught math at my school for a while, and now she homeschools my sister and two brothers.
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It appears there are a good amount of children on this forum...
My mom is a police officer, and my dad works at Time Warner Cable.
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My mom works as a secretary at a criminal defense law office, and my dad is a retired Navy Captain who is working as a history professor at a Naval War College.
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My father is a oyster harvester. He is often gone for months at a time on excursions seeking the best oysters.
My mother, on the other hand, is a vegetable-bakery specialist. Need a carrot cake or some zucchini bread? Look no further.
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Those are some very obscure jobs.
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It appears there are a good amount of children on this forum...
Because having parents makes you a child?
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I haven't seen or talked to my mom in many years, but last I heard she was working at Piercing Pagoda in some mall. My dad is currently unemployed.
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Sorry, I meant comapny.
WHERE IS YOUR COMAPNY NOW (http://themushroomkingdom.net/board/index.php?topic=11688.msg508177#msg508177)
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Sorry.
Can I has good grammarrr?
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C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!
"On what"
"E-Mail Failing."
"Oh."
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WHERE IS YOUR COMAPNY NOW (http://themushroomkingdom.net/board/index.php?topic=11688.msg508177#msg508177)
Now you've taken it from funny to just stupid. Editing a post used to pwn you just means you admit to the pwnage.